Fuck micro stakes

First 10k hands were NL5 rush, at which point I decided to take a shot at NL10 rush, thinking it cant be much different. Boy was I wrong, just a massive nitfest, everyone setmining from ANY position against ANY preflop raise. By the time I started to realize TPGK and cbets werent gonna cut it, I had already spewed several buyins. Then suddenly I forgot how to play NL5 rush. Now I'm just spiraling out of control snap tilting when someone mindonks the flop into me, or calls my 5xBB open with 24s. Even when I win at showdown im just like "what the fuck, you called with that? *raaaaaaage*" I've completely forgotten how to play. Now I'm just blindly stacking off with PP's b/c I see someone get it in 1 time with KJo, being a station vs 8/2 nits with hands like JJ when it's obvious I'm beat on a 24895 board. Just bad bad baaaaaaad play. I just have so little respect for the class of human beings I'm up against that it affects my play. Because I dislike them as people, I play back at them, to punish them and make them feel bad for losing.

I think the problem is that at these stakes I keep looking at poker as just a game and not money. I mean I cant be proud of $15 sessions, since thats meaningless to me. I quite honestly have to have real money on the line for me to give a fuck. It's a discipline thing, and I lack it. Even worse, I just dont care to beat micro stakes, any more than at NL200 reg would go back and try to beat it. I mean why bother? If you can play higher then play higher.

I once read that everyone, regardless of occupation, always reaches their level of incompetency. In poker this means your highest limit before you lose. You dont play NL2 if you can crush it for 20bb/100, you play NL200 for 2bb/100. Im not sure what my ceiling is b/c I've never applied myself. Decisions decisions decisions.....

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With rakeback I decided to take an early shot at NL10 rush.



By the 56th hand I had 3 sets busted. Was supposed to be a 2 BI shot, but 56 hands is like 56 seconds of play. Oh well I managed to pull the plug back at my original starting bankroll. Probably take another 10k hands to get it back, or 3 days of play. Not too bad really. Is it really so much to ask not to get completely ass fucked by the site when taking a damn shot? Jesus.

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WAIT NO IM NOT!!''



Had just finished minimizing app's before I saw the FTP rush screen open, and figured why not squeeze out a couple of BI's right before sleep. Boooooooooo.. frickin sets vs sets, KK vs AA, 3 barreling fish who call me down with AK high on 22736 boards. It's all good though, gettin in some nice volume.

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Took some leftover rakeback and starting playing micro CAP games on FTP to limit my risk of ruin. The funny thing is I found it to be one of the most relaxing ways to play poker, short of getting high (k2o is progressively perking my interest in this). As a loose aggressive player I tend to see a lot of bad beats just from playing so many pots, at least at small stakes games. I feel I'm pretty good at hand reading, although not so great at playing postflop, such as when to value bet and when to not. My sessions usually result in winning lots of small-medium pots, and then losing one huge one to set me all the way back. The beauty of these micro cap games is that fish are still playing them like normal poker, none of that SS strategy you see at higher cap games. This is great because I can get reasonable value from all my 60/40 hands the way I should, and win pot after pot after pot. When that suckout comes around the corner the most I can ever lose is 30BB's. Fuck you variance, how ya gonna get me now? Even if I lost 5 hands in a row I'd probably just end breakeven. If I lose 5 hands in an uncapped game I'm probably in the deep red. Sure I miss out on value, but only from hands I'm likely to make 2% of the time anyway. For all you regs im sure that 2% makes up for all the losses in between. If you lose 180BB's over 400 hands but win 200BB in one glorious moment then you're ahead. Well problem for me is I dont play long enough to reach those pivotal moments. I quite enjoy battling players one at a time through leisurely play until im satisfied and choose to quit. There's also some sick sick fish at the high stakes cap games who just like the thought of playing 5/10, so it doesnt hurt to get used to it and craft my own theories for optimal play as I get there.

Ultimately though, it's simply +EV for me as a person to play these. It really doesnt bother me at all to lose AJs aipf to K9s for 30BB's as it would for 100 which happens quite often. I wish it didnt bother me at regular NL either, but thats another lesson I have yet to learn.

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Yeah thats right, I got colluded against in an online game of team fortress. lol. They introduced this dueling system whereby you can challenge other people to a duel in-game, and whoever kills the other the most wins. You get this wearable badge with a track record of your progress that everyone can see. Of course being the good player than I am I accept any and all duels, and only challenge opponents at the top of the scoreboard.

So some random player insta-challenges me as soon as I join the game which I thought was weird, maybe he knew me or something. I accept, and start pwning his ass 2-0, but noticed it was pretty damn difficult to accomplish. Then he starts getting kills on me, and im like "fuck this guy is pretty good... *respect*". Then I run up on him again and all the sudden he's in uber mode which makes him invincible. I haul ass and survive, find him a minute later, and he ubers again. Then it dawns on me, this punk mother fucker has a pocket medic following him around. Thats why it was so damn hard to kill him the first 2 times. As I continue to seek him out, there's his little bitch boyfriend medic by his side keeping him alive time and time again. By the time I realized I was being set up he had overtaken my lead 3-2.

The match ended and I lost my perfect 15-0 record. Then what do I behold? He snap challenges someone else, someone who was like 8th on the board, a random player like a pyro or something, totally worthless. This fucking cuntbag is running around the server issuing duels against people and then stacking a medic against them to inflate his shitty little dueling record. No fucking class. I think I'm just gonna delete my badge and try to start over.

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Just trying to play a little rush at the office, tethering my cellphone to my pc to hide my tracks, and I cant get more than 5 fucking hands in before some cunt starts crying that her PDF isnt printing, or that the print quality is faded, or that the projector wont turn on, or that the scanner isnt scanning, or someone just wants to talk about how cool wifi is and that the shingles on their goddamn roof reduce cellphone reception. FUCK ALL YOU BITCHES!!!1

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The following is Matt Damon's first hand we see vs KGB if it were played online. Just seeing it all laid out like this had me in tears for a solid 5 minutes.

$25/50 NLHE 500BB min
4 players

UTG folds
Hero raises to $500
SB folds
BB calls $450

Flop: (Pot $1,025)



BB checks
Hero bets $2,000
BB calls $2,000

Turn: (Pot $5,025)



BB checks
Hero checks

River: (Pot $5,025)



BB bets $15,000
Hero requests TIME
Hero raises to $48,000 and is ALL IN
BB calls, slow rolls, shows
Hero mucks
BB wins $101,025

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I saw a video not too long ago whereby Ivey loses 2nd in chips at the FT of some WPT or EPT event. He gets it allin with AA or something, as a huge favorite. Potential 2 million dollars lay before his eyes. Then what did he do? He did nothing. He didnt run around the table hooting and hollering saying "one time! one time!". He didnt stand up and watch the cards get dealt. He didnt go to the rail to hold his buddies. He just sat there and let poker do its thing. He loses to a 2 outer. And his very next move, after being horribly sucked out on, was to simply shake hands, get up, collect his things, and leave. Either it didnt bother him, or he didnt let it bother him.

I want to be like Ivey. Just got back from another unbeatable table of fish. 3 BI's gone. Standard 90/10 coinflipping. I can only get it in ahead so many times. If this happened online shit would be breaking. Probably be out another monitor. Thank god it was live and the 20 minute drive home gave me time to cool off. I'm still on the verge of snapping. One wrong move and I'll lose it. Anyway, I am flat out done with playing in fishy games, just too much variance. At least fishy ring games where donkeys can threaten my entire stack. Gonna investigate the CAP scene, or maybe the 50BB tables, just anything where some fish cant quintouple up and then stack me for 100BB's randomly clicking buttons.

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I'm drunk now.

NL50 live, bad bead whine blog. KK w < Q9o on T85sss, I have king spade, he has Queen spade. Runner runner 2 pair suckout entire stack.

Reload.

Im in BB with K4o, utg limps. Flop K43. Allin for entire stack on flop. Turn 5, river 5, i lose to K6o. I'm like -4000 across live/online to this shit. Fish are so awesome, I always want them at my table, so much profit here always losing to suckouts. This is how high stakes players make their living, playing vs calling stations. every NL1k player's bottom line comes from this, make their millions vs fish, not vs regs whom they can read and outplay, but to fish, yea sure.

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Back when I was playing live NL200 earlier this week I stumbled across my first real exploitable tell. On 4 separate occasions I had villains betting like $12 into $80 pots. Now I assumed this was partly because they dont really keep track of the pot size so they're just firing out some minuscule bet based on the strength of their hand because it makes them feel good.

And then I was like fuck that. I made what would be my normal river value bet of like $60, and they folded. I really began paying attention to their bet sizes on every street, and noticed all too often they were simply making really inappropriate bets, usually half pot or less. I never noticed this before because when I'm in a pot it's because I raised, and therefore they all just call and "check to the raiser". So I just started raising any bet postflop regardless of my hand if I deemed it "unworthy". $30 pot and you bet $7? Raise. And just like that I stole it every time.

Sample size is like 10 hands but I feel good about this. My only concern goes back to what I first mentioned, that they arent really paying attention to the pot size, therefore their betsize has little to do with it. But seriously, when theres a mountain of red chips you should be able to fucking guesstimate whats in there, theres no excuse for these ridiculously small bets they keep making.

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